History Department Faculty

Robert J. Savage

Robert J. Savage

Ph.D.

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Education

B.A., Boston College

M.A., University College, Dublin

Ph.D., Boston College

Research Interests

Irish and British political and cultural history; film and broadcast media in Ireland and the United Kingdom; ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland; culture and nationalism in England, Scotland and Wales.

Department

Biography

Professor Savage teaches Irish, British and European History. He is the director of the History Core Program and served as one of the directors of the University’s Irish Studies Program from 1995 to 2010.

He is a Visiting Fellow at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin (2018, 2012) and a Visiting Research Professor at Queens University, Belfast (2017-2018, 2015). At the University of Edinburgh he held a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship (2007) and the National University of Ireland, Galway awarded him a More Institute Fellowship (2013) and an Irish Studies Visiting Fellowship (2004).

Savage recently completed a chapter for the four-volume Cambridge History of Modern Ireland (edited by Thomas Bartlett, 2018).

A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972 (Manchester University Press, 2010) winner of the 2010 James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prizefor Best Book in History and Social Sciences from the American Conference for Irish Studies). /offices/pubaf/news/2011/savage_book_award04062011.html

‘Sean Lemass and the Advent of Irish Television’ in The Age of Sean Lemass: Ireland 1945-1973 edited by Briand Girvin and Gary Murphy (University College Dublin Press, 2005).